Top Parental Control Apps for your Kids’ Smartphone

These days, even toddlers love to play games on their parent’s cell phones and definitely, most teens mobile phones in their pocket. Well technology has come with both its positive and negative sides.

However, the parents need to be a little more conscious regarding their child’s usage of mobile phones. This is because, kids can often turn vulnerable and certainly, bad things attract children faster than the good ones.

Besides, issues can turn out to be serious due to the fact that the kids usually don’t have the potential to differentiate between the good and the bad.

To make things easier for the parents, here I would be listing some of the best parental control apps that would help you track usage and location, limit time spend on the cell phone and block different apps or games as necessary. Thus, these apps would surely help you to keep your kids’ habits in check!

1. Qustodio:

this comes with a very user friendly interface along with a dashboard that helps you learn about all the recent mobile activity and keep a track of other connected device as well. It even informs you about the time spent on specific platforms like Twitter or Instagram or games and apps too. Thus, you can set time limits to all of them as per your requirement. You can track texts, calls and filter out racy sites. This app works well for Kindle too so that you can protect your children even if they are on your Amazon device.

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2. Family Time:

It offers SOS and Pick Me Up options for child as well as help you keep a track of calls and SMS logging on the cell phone as well as geofencing. Thus, it gives a total security to your kids’ usage of the digital world with an easy to set up feature.

3. Pumpic:

Pumpic is quite effective if you are looking for ways to track your kid’s activity on the phone. It even gives you a record of the device’s location as well as you can block different website visits and set time schedules based on your fit by using this application.

4. Kaspersky Safe Kids:

It is quite affordable and gives a flexible control of device and app usage. It comprises of other features such as extensive alert system, robust web filtering and geo fencing. However, it has got several limitations for the iOS devices.

5. Net Nanny:

This app has been rising as one of the best parental control apps over time. It comes with options such as internet filter, porn blocker, alerts about activity, time schedules, and usage reports. This will help you keep a constant check on your kids and help you get the details of every activity that they have been doing over the phone. Not just that, this application even comes with an additional feature, the profanity filter which will allow your kids to visit different web pages but will block the bad words without interrupting their usage.

#. Norton Family Premier:

Norton Family Premier is believed to deliver the best mix of web filtering, location tracking and app management. It works the best when installed on Android devices since it comes with several limitations when installed on iPhones. It is regarded as one of the best choice for parental control apps, as suggested by several experts after passing through various tests.

Although none of the parent control apps is perfect, but still they are capable of keep a track of your kids’ activity over the internet and helps parents know about whom they are communicating to as well as restrict them from different objectionable sites. Overall, this approach can help parents teach their kids about their limits on the digital platform.

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